Beautiful Smile

As promised, here is a picture of Ella's first two teeth. She has the prettiest smile!

Ella is 7 months old today!

I feel like a broken record every time I write one of these posts, but I just can't believe how much Ella has changed in the last month, last week, and even how much she changes from day to day.

She's getting ready to crawl, and we're expecting to adorn our house with a myriad of baby gates and other lovely baby safety items very soon. She can pull herself up onto her hands and knees and rock back and forth, as if to launch herself forward into a crawl.

Sometimes she does launch herself forward but without moving her hands, so she does a little face plant on the floor.

Just yesterday she started pulling herself up on her hands, but has decided to skip the knees and go right for her feet. She makes a little plank on the floor - presumably very good for her abs and other core muscles. We're sure that she's going to love Yoga. Sometimes she has very talkative days (see the video Happy Feet below), and sometimes she's more of an observer. She babbles ma-ma (but not to me), ba-ba, pa, ha, and loves to screech like an owl or hawk, or some other bird of prey.

She now has her second tooth on the bottom to accompany the first - it looks so adorable. I've somehow been entirely unable to capture their cuteness on camera, but I will post when I do. We love our little girl so much, and can't wait to see what new tricks she has up her sleeve in the next few months and years to come.

Happy Feet

This video makes me laugh every time I see it. It's of Ella enjoying her jumperoo. She really gets into it now, instead of just bouncing lightly, she really jumps and dances around. When I took this video, the sun was reflecting off of the mirror on the jumperoo, and she could see the reflected light on the ceiling move every time she moved. She LOVED it! She's making the funniest sounds with her voice. Every day it's a new noise she likes to practice, this time it was sounding like, and jumping around like a little monkey.